Twenty new bat boxes added to Haliburton County! On Saturday, June 9, at the Fish Hatchery, 24 adults and 4 children constructed bat boxes from kits created by the Haliburton Highlands Outdoors Association in partnership with the Land Trust.

Paul Heaven, the Land Trust’s bat project biologist, visited the workshop to summarize our research results and answer participants’ questions on bats and bat boxes.

If you missed this workshop and want to make a bat box, sign up at our website for our second workshop on July 21 at Abbey Gardens. But don’t delay as spaces are limited!

Save the Date: ‘Rock Our World’ Fundraising Dance

Come dance, Friday August 10 at the Haliburton Legion! Earlybid pricing of just $30 until July 1! Featuring Jamie Williams Entertainment and Cheeky Monkey as our jazz opener. Check this link to our website for all the details!

Our second objective is to investigate some of the hot-spots we identified through the 2017 inventories. Sites of high activity may represent maternity roosts (moms and pups) which are of particular importance to the local population.

We have now revisited four sites multiple times to conduct evening bat counts and verify the presence

of bats at risk through further acoustical inventories. The Little Brown Myotis has been

identified at all four sites, and the Northern Myotis at two of them. This is consistent with our data from last year. However, the Eastern Small-footed Myotis, which was identified at three of the sites in 2017, has disappeared from all three sites in 2018.

Twenty new bat boxes added to Haliburton County! On Saturday, June 9, at the Fish Hatchery, 24 adults and 4 children constructed bat boxes from kits created by the Haliburton Highlands Outdoors Association in partnership with the Land Trust. Paul Heaven, the Land Trust’s bat project biologist, visited the workshop to summarize our research results and answer participants’ questions on bats and bat boxes…

Since the spring of 2015, Hospice North Hastings has operated the Village Playhouse. Funds raised at the theatre have been covering the costs of restoring one of Bancroft’s landmarks and we also use the funds we raise to support the programs and services that are offered by Hospice North Hastings in our community. Hospice North Hastings does not receive any health care dollars, so the Playhouse provides us with fun, culturally exciting ways to create a revenue stream…

The FOCA is pleased to announce a new report about the significance of waterfront property owners (WPO), and an elections Toolkit for member Associations interested in getting out the vote in rural Ontario this fall….

Everyone has their own opinions about social media. It is an efficient way to communicate with others far away, to find long-lost friends and to show the world what you are up to. But it is also known as an incredible time waster and one person’s idea of a fabulous post, may be drivel to someone else. For us, last fall, social media actually played an integral part of letting us know about the disaster that we had on the island…

The HHLT is pleased to announce the acquisition, through donation and Conservation Easement Agreement, of a beautiful, ecologically diverse property. Through the Federal Ecological Gifts Program, Leopoldina and Margaret Dobrzensky have donated outright approximately 500 acres to the HHLT, while another 100 acres will be protected through a Conservation Easement Agreement between the Dobrzenskys and the HHLT….

In 2017 The Land Between charity and The Ontario Turtle Conservation Centre (home of the Turtle Trauma Centre) declared a state of emergency for Ontario’s turtles. This was because there were unprecedented numbers of turtles killed on roads and brought into the trauma centre for treatment…

Alcohol is a factor in nearly 40% of boating incidents and by the middle of summer, boating is in full swing. With warmer water, hotter days and many enjoying fun in the sun on their boats, it is the perfect time to remind Canadian boaters about the risks of drinking and boating….

Welcome back to the cottage and Paudash Lake! Your PLCA Board has been busy this season attending meetings, having meetings and planning future meetings. Following is some commentary on a number of issues, items and events past and coming up…

The more things change, well...they change. Those changes can sometimes make navigation on land and water and friendly conversations challenging. I was drawn in to such a conversation recently to choruses of who has the oldest map. It was all in good fun. However, a dear friend who drops in from overseas annually is perplexed often by name changes that others maintain were always thus…